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UFS Welcomes back Exchange students on Campus
As the UFS COVID-19 Regulations and Required Vaccination Policy has been lifted with immediate effect – allowing 100% capacity of both students and staff members and a fully operational campus – the Office for International Affairs welcomes its first physical exchange cohort after two years. Read more...
Rector's Heads of Diplomatic Mission breakfast
On 9 June 2022 the Rector, Professor Francis Petersen, recently hosted the Heads of Diplomatic Mission breakfast in South Africa in Pretoria. Fifteen foreign missions attended the event, with representation from Argentina, Belgium, Egypt, the European Union, Italy, Japan, Kenya, Lesotho, Namibia, the Netherlands, Nigeria, Spain, Switzerland, the United States, and Zimbabwe.
#Africa Month: A cultural and intellectual fanfare to remember
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Umoja Buddy Programme Celebrates International Friendship Day
The Umoja Buddy Programme within the Office for International Affairs is celebrating International Friendship Day. As proclaimed by the United Nations (UN), Read more..
Guest Lecture by Prof Anil Sooklal
The lecture took place on 1 June 2022 at the Centenary Complex. This lecture examined the role that BRICS has played in shaping the current international order; the challenges and obstacles to BRICS' ambitions for global economic and political governance reform; as well as discussed opportunities for BRICS to reshape the emerging international order, given broad developing country concerns about the abuse of the system by the Global North.
